‘Each work should be a new creation of the mind … It should abstract itself from memory, seeing only that which it looks upon, and that as for the first time.’ Stéphane Mallarmé 1876

23 February 2012

TRACES AND SHADOWS

Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.

VIRGIL, AENEID IV.23

My latest painting, featured in the film, is of a nocturnal street scene in front of the newly renovated West Hampstead Station - the variegated bricks you can see glinting in sunlight in my recent Urban Georgic.

Shadow Play. Photo by Dora Petherbridge

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Postscript

Edward recently did a Q&A about Slim Chances with the Washington Independent Review of Books, which you can read here.